There was an Old Sailor of Compton

by Edward Lear

Picture by Edward Lear

A reading of the poem "There was an Old Sailor of Compton"

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 There was an Old Sailor of Compton,
 Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;
 The shock was so great,
 that it damaged the pate,
 Of that singular Sailor of Compton.

 <Publ. 1846>